Disciplines

MacMillan: "We want to be the consolidator in our market"

Blackstone to invest £100m in HH Global

Investment firm Blackstone Tactical Opportunities is to make a £100m strategic minority equity investment in HH Global.

Green: “We have existing dialogue with printers around the world so we will approach those markets"

Printed.com rounds off £1m Ricoh spend; eyes international expansion

Printed.com has invested in seven Ricoh Pro 9210 engines and is looking to expand internationally in 2020.

Roland SF-200: "indispensable for a wide range of applications"

Roland unveils desktop device for sensitive applications

Roland DG has launched what it claims is the world’s first flatbed desktop printer that can print safe inks onto food containers, children’s toys and medical equipment.

Antalis has expanded its offering with the Kolbus box-making kit

Antalis begins box production

Paper and packaging materials distributor Antalis has expanded its offering with a move into box manufacturing after installing a Kolbus Autobox AB.

 David Montgomery launched National World earlier this year

Montgomery 'frontrunner' in race to buy JPI titles

One-time Mirror Group chief executive David Montgomery has emerged as the frontrunner to buy the bulk of JPI Media's assets, according to reports.

Beginning a beautiful relationship

In the current trading climate most printers spend more time fretting about retaining their existing customer base than focusing on winning new customers. However, it’s a harsh commercial reality that...

Great fakes

Fakes, forgeries and fabrications give printers a bad name and the fear of forgery was one of the reasons behind the 1637 Star Chamber Decree designed to prevent “abuses in printing seditious,...

Paper tigers

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

Stokes and some of the Bristol Labels team

Keep it in the family

In 2004 the sales manager of the then named Bristol-based Baronial Labels, Paul Stokes, undertook a management buyout of the business along with his co-workers.

Maskell: no more drainpipe trousers

Q&A: Derek Maskell, sales consultant, Interket

Derek is bowing out and retires this month after more than 50 years in the industry. He’s 73 and has been in print-related employment since 1966. He’s married to Donna with two children and three...